F U N D E C Y T. Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Ciencia y la Tecnología en Extremadura

09/09/2010

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Knowledge Society / Introduction / Knowledge Society

The economy is changing, we are moving from an industrial era to something new, the Information Society, which is influencing the way we think and work, affecting the flow of new ideas in companies, their management, organisation and processes.

We are immersed in the Information Society, advancing towards a society based on knowledge, represented by a digital economy, in which knowledge is the most important resource and is a powerful motor for growth, competitiveness and employment.

This recent reign of knowledge can be explained by two factors:

- Progress in the development of indicators and means of measurement has contributed to knowledge being regarded a new input, inherent to the productive process. Knowledge, like any other productive factor, can be produced and used to create other goods and even to create more knowledge.
- The rise and development of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has contributed to making the use and creation of knowledge easier.

With these new "golden rules", an organisation, either public or private, which

- Is able to capitalise on the intellectual capacity of its members,
- Develops their learning capacity,
- Promotes constant innovation
- Encourages the creation of new knowledge and,
- Develops the systems and technology necessary to do so,

will be in a position to face up to the challenges of the future. The new paradigm is to capture and manage these capacities and knowledge and to make the most of them, in other words, to convert intellectual capital into opportunities for development.

The close link between the Information Society, based on the application of Information and Communication Technology, and the growing importance of knowledge as a strategic factor, creates the need to integrate both work areas into one: the Knowledge Society area.